Recently I read how the current campaign between Trump and Harris is divided between the team who is bringing joy to the campaign trail and the one that brings rage. That is a fascinating way to characterize the two campaigns. Let’s take a closer look.
We begin with the fact that we have a campaign between the incumbents and the challengers. No matter what Ms. Harris says, she is the incumbent. By definition, the incumbents are going to tell America that things are wonderful, and we need to continue on the path to greatness with just a few tweaks here and there. The challengers must say negative things because they are forced to say what you are getting isn’t good enough and they can do better. Since historically any campaign could be characterized as Joy vs. Rage, we need to dig a bit deeper.
Theoretically, most if not all journalists should find the sudden change of candidates interesting. There is a significant interest regarding what Harris and Walz knew about President Biden’s inability to continue on as a candidate. It didn’t just happen the night of June 27th when he showed up for the debate. Ms. Harris tells us she worked intimately with Mr. Biden which is why she is prepared to take over his job. Mr. Walz emerged from a Governors’ meeting with President Biden after the debate and vouched for his competence. The American public was purposely deceived, and we deserve to know what they knew and when they knew it. That would be a misdirection from the Joy Campaign though.
Niall Ferguson wrote “when the Democrats could no longer keep the Biden fiction alive it turned to another one, pretending Kamala Harris was in fact the perfect candidate, who would sweep to victory on November the fifth.” That is where the Joy campaign began.
Apparently empirical evidence of policy failures in their respective states (California and Minnesota) has caused people to flood out to Nevada, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, etc. Certainly, crime and homelessness in California to accompany high taxes and excessive poverty is not all caused by Harris, but she certainly contributed to it. The people fleeing Minnesota are obviously related to the policies enacted by “Coach Walz” as the exodus has occurred since he became Governor. Hush – keep that to yourself because it is the Joy Campaign.
As Victor Davis Hanson stated, “No one voted for the Biden-Harris ticket to borrow trillions sparking hyperinflation, to wage war on fossil fuels, to go woke, to welcome in 10 million illegal aliens, to abandon $50 billion in weapons to the terrorist Taliban, and to find America facing existential wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and soon perhaps over Taiwan.” That is because we were not allowed to discuss policy in 2020 as Uncle Joe huddled in his beach home with his wife and juvenile delinquent child while hiding from the public. This is not because we had the Joy Campaign then, but the seeds were certainly planted.
On August 8th, Harris was stopped on a tarmac and answered questions for an entire minute. The press, so rabid for the truth, gave her a complete pass when she said she would look at having an interview by the end of the month (23 days later). She did comply with that 21 days later, but with her new soulmate at her side. Who wants to subvert the Joy Campaign?
The Joy Campaign would be unique if it were not modeled after, you guessed it, The Trump campaign. It is as if the fawning press had skipped over the events where often tens of thousands of people line up for days to participate in a Trump rally. It is almost as if the members of Pravda had never read the multiple stories of formerly anti-Trump people attending a Trump rally, feeling the love, and telling the world the people– you know, the ones they were told to either hate or that they were just rubes, were actually genuinely nice, warm, kind people. What used to be considered “Minnesota nice” really could be found in Pennsylvania or Georgia or Nevada at a Trump Rally.
Sure, the rallies for the Joy Campaign are drawing lots of people, but the question is are they there because they are just delighted their former candidate — the old, weird man who leaned into the mic and whispered at us while stating something unintelligible — is gone? Don’t you think at some point they want to hear whether the person who was ridiculed by the same press just three months ago as a bumbling, inept second banana all of a sudden is now St. Kammy?
How long can the charade of the Joy Campaign continue? Will the truth be told about this pitiful candidate so that she can be sent off to become the newest member of the The View, where Harris really belongs?
